Although used for millennia, only recently has there been an increased interest in bamboo as a construction material for its economic, social and environmental benefits. For bamboo to be widely implemented in construction, ...

An experimental study on solid-supported phospholipid bilayers was performed in order to investigate rate-dependent behavior of force and probability of bilayer rupture. 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine ...

Waste consolidation is a crucial step in the development of cost-effective, nation-wide material reclamation networks. This thesis project investigates typical and conformational tendencies of a hypothetical end-of-life ...

Aluminum is a versatile material that is used frequently in transportation and packaging, two industries with substantial recent growth. The increase in demand for aluminum, however, has outpaced the growth of primary ...

The role of hydrogen in chemical vapor decomposition (CVD) of C2H4 for growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was investigated. Fe/A1203 (1/10 nm) catalyst layers were used for growth on Si substrates and the times at which H2 ...

Mussel byssal threads exhibit unique self-healing mechanical properties. This study designed a synthetic system modeled after the byssal thread structure in order to isolate the origins of their unique self-healing mechanical ...

Cement is the most widely produced material worldwide. However, the understanding on how its nanoscale composition affect its microscale mechanical properties is limited. In this thesis, a micromechanical model for the ...

Nanodiamonds have potential in biomedical uses, as they are non-toxic and exhibit non-blinking fluorescence behavior when they are enriched with nitrogen vacancy centers. In order for them to be useful in biomedical ...

Pulsed laser deposition was used to create thin films of Ce-Fe-O and Y-Fe-O systems. Deposition temperature and ambient oxygen pressure were varied systematically between samples to determine which deposition conditions ...

Due to their intrinsic properties and nanometer scale, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are commonly used to enhance the material properties of engineering materials. However, structural defects can significantly alter the intrinsic ...

Introduction: Research on the metallurgy of archaeological artifacts has focused primarily on the examination of objects to reveal their design, their composition, the properties of the material people selected to achieve ...

Polyelectrolyte multilayer thin films are polymer films assembled through a layer-by-layer sequential addition of oppositely charged polymers. The layer-by-layer film assembly technique allows for properties such as film ...

A study of the microstructural and mechanical properties of wing bones of an Anna's hummingbird (Calypte Anna) and a tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) was conducted to determine whether the hummingbird bones exhibited ...

Nanogap devices have applications in single molecule sensing and single molecule transistors. Nanogap devices comprised of a gold nanowire with a nanoscale gap containing C₆₀ were fabricated using electromigration on a ...